Advanced Supply Chain Planning Solution

Picaso™ delivers a comprehensive solution that helps you optimize every aspect of your supply chain--from demand management and distribution planning through production scheduling and sourcing. This fully-integrated suite of planning and optimization modules gives you all the tools you need to develop fast and accurate plans that help you minimize costs and maximize productivity.

Only the Picaso™ supply chain planning system was designed from the ground up to meet the specific requirements of process manufacturers. It is powered by a single, common model that reflects the real-world operations and needs of the process industry.

The Picaso™ software solution is a comprehensive suite of decision support and optimization applications that supports a broad set of supply chain business functions including:

Demand planning and forecasting Sales and Operations Planning Supply chain optimization Inventory targeting and optimization

Distribution planning Production planning, scheduling & optimal policy setting Raw materials planning Available-to-promise order fulfillment analysis

	Supply Chain Event Monitor Picaso™ Supply Chain Event Monitor serves as the core of the Picaso™ planning system. The highly graphical interfaces of Picaso's Grid Console provide an all-in-one look at inventory projections, order status, planned production and material movements across all of the products in a business. This display provides an up-to-the-minute simulation of your supply chain which alerts you to problems or opportunities that could significantly affect your profitability or competitiveness.
	Distribution Replenishment Planning Integrated with the Supply Chain Event Monitor, the Picaso™ DRP module uses product formulations and replenishment algorithms to compute and recommend just-in-time replenishment orders for raw materials. These replenishments consider the lead-time and typical lot size from each supplier. Raw material inventories and replenishment orders are automatically linked to the supply chain simulator such that a change in a production schedule that turns raw material plans infeasible will trigger algorithms to re-plan optimal replenishment.
	Customer Service Workstation The Customer Service Workstation provides Available-To-Promise (ATP) functionality and order status updates to support day-to-day activities of the customer service personnel. The Available-To-Promise analysis synthesizes inventory, production schedules, orders and forecasts to compute availability for any moment in the future, and also recommends alternate sourcing options if preferred sources are at capacity.
	Collaborative Sales Forecast The Picaso™ Demand Planning and Forecasting Module creates statistical forecasts and supports the collaborative forecasting process. Generate statistical forecasts using a flexible, multi-tier tournament of statistical forecasting models Collect sales forecasts from field sales personnel Allow sales and customer service representatives, marketing planners and business managers to view, analyze, and override statistical forecasts based on marketing intelligence and unique knowledge of customer requirements Create personalized analytics to evaluate forecasting effectiveness
	Production Scheduling The Picaso™ Production Scheduling module provides users with powerful simulation capability, wherein key operating parameters such as product transitions, equipment rates, and yield values can be modified to help create the best candidate schedule. In addition, changes made to the schedule are automatically incorporated into the Supply Chain Event Monitor, allowing schedulers to immediately determine the feasibility and effectiveness of their changes.
	Inventory Targeting Picaso™ Inventory Targeting provides a means for calculating safety stock recommendations based on targeted customer service levels. It also compares optimum inventory levels to anticipated inventory levels based on current supply chain management policies.
	Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) The Picaso™ Advanced Planning module provides the capability to support Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) activities and analyses. The tool can be used to determine optimal production and sourcing policies that reduce costs and maximize profitability. In addition, it provides a means of rapidly determining not only what portion of the forecast is feasible to produce, but what product mix is most profitable to produce. In situations where capacity exceeds demand, the tool identifies opportunities to increase profits by recommending expanded production and sales of key products.